Geelong pilot to formulate national policy: City to set well-being standard
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG is serving as a pilot community for a new measure of Australian wellbeing and progress that will play a key...
‘Mega board’ to fund city tourism
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A PROPOSED Geelong-Bellarine Peninsula tourism board will have to apply for funding from a new industry authority it refused to join.
Tourism...
Reading cinema in systems ’first’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE curtains will open on Australian cinematic first when Reading Waurn Ponds unveils a state-of-the-art digital projection and sound system.
Reading manager...
Roomster lives up to name
By ERIC BLAIR
WHEN Skoda returned to Australia in 2007 it did so with two models, the mainstream Octavia sedan and a quirky, boxy little...
Corio MP backing Shorten
By NOEL MURPHY
CORIO MP Richard Marles has made an impassioned plea for the ALP to drop its previous leadership baggage and back Bill Shorten...
Mum told to apologise over foul abuse of cop
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
A 27-YEAR-OLD mother must write a letter of apology to a police officer for verbally abusing him, a Geelong magistrate ordered on...
Portuguese ‘discovery’ explained
By NOEL MURPHY
IT’S one of Geelong’s most persistent legends and, like most legends, might be based to some degree in fact.
But whether the Portuguese...
Polls headache as election, footy finals clash in city: Vote 1: Geelong Cats
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG’S first finals football-flavoured federal election could delay results in the tightest seat in the nation, Corangamite.
The clash of the two...
Settled Cats home in on Freo niggles
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
DON'T expect too much change from Chris Scott during the finals series.
Finishing second, minimal serious injury concerns, a generous allotment of...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Tiny trio’s giant talent
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
A foot in the door has become a place in the spotlight for teenage Ocean Grove garage band The Tiny Giants got...
JOIN THE CLUB: The art of conversation
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
It’s hard to know, really - is it an art group or a chat club?
Jo Fearon laughs as she tries to...
Miette steps up for child research
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
EVENT management could be a future career for 11-year-old Miette Craven-Briggs.
The grade five St Patrick’s Primary student motivated 84 schoolmates to...
Musical on the high seas
Local piano man Andy Pobjoy is one of Geelong’s best loved and most well known entertainers.
Owner and manager of the vibrant and inclusive Piano...
